“All too often European leaders have pandered to the prejudices fueling anti-Roma violence by branding Roma as anti-social and unwelcome. While generally condemning the most blatant examples of anti-Roma violence, authorities have been reluctant to acknowledge its extent and slow to combat it.”

Amnesty accused EU governments, as well as the European Commission, of failing to use all means within its legislative arsenal to combat both violence and discrimination…

* * *Roma in the UK behave so badly even the Pakistanis have trouble co-existing with them. See here, here, here and here.

Amnesty needs to tell the Roma to rein in the anti-social behaviour of some of them. This is not a simple case of one-sided “racism.”